Low

The Friday schedule for the 2020 Duluth Homegrown Music Festival's looked to be epic, with many performances from artists we don't get to see regularly these days for one reason or another. Red Mountain, Jim Hall, Charlotte Montgomery, Purple Hearse, and a reunion set from The Very People, a soulful band from the '00s were among the highlights that could have been.

Armchair Boogie and Ginstrings
Bluegrass jam music
Red Herring Lounge
Friday, January 25 | 10pm | $7

Martha Scanlan, Jon Neufeld, Ann Kathryn
Sweet sounding country and folk
Beaner’s Central
Friday, January 25 | 7pm | $15

It pays to live in Low's home town. On Friday, March 30 locals were lucky enough to experience the band performing a work originally commissioned for the Organ Reframed festival at London's Union Chapel back in October and only performed twice since, in Amsterdam and at SXSW. Duluth's Sacred Heart Music Center, with its renowned Felgemaker organ, served as the perfect venue for this special show, the seats turned to face the balcony. The performance was a benefit for the Friends of the Felgemaker and Churches United in Ministry.

For some, it was an emotional homecoming to a venue that hosted some of the most memorable moments from Duluth's music and arts scene from the '90s to the mid-2000s. For others, it was a first chance to experience music in one of Duluth's last remaining historic  theaters.

Gabriel Douglas, Laura Sellner, Nick Costa, and Jordyn Johnsrud
Storytellers. Featured Singer/Songwriters from Minnesota explain the meaning of a song before playing it in an Intimate Listening Experience
The Red Herring Lounge
Thursday, March 1 | 7 PM | $5 | All Ages

KUMD is Proud to Sponsor The 4onthefloor
Stomping Blues band comes to party. 4 Bass Drums. Fun 4 everyone. Let's Party
The RedHerring Lounge
Friday, March 2 | 9 PM | $10 | 21+

We are partnering with First Avenue to bring you this exciting lineup of Minnesota musicians to Bayfront Festival Park on Saturday, July 8. Gates open at 4:30 pm with music starting at 5:00 pm. The show also includes exciting opening acts: Remo Drive and J.S. Ondara. This an all-ages show!

Ticket purchasing information can be found at first-avenue.com.

KUMD is a proud sponsor of Low: Remixing Shakespeare at Karpeles Manuscript Library, a concert with original music by Low, performed as a live score to silent film adaptations of "The Tempest" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Congratulations to all the KUMD listeners who won tickets ~ enjoy the show!

Social media clued people in to one of the Homegrown Music Festival’s many unofficial events, a Wednesday afternoon living room show at Washington Galleries with music from Superior Siren and others leading up to the main event, Westside Wednesday.

Homegrown’s official West End/West Duluth onslaught began at 6 with Mahtowa, Minnesota’s finest country gospel practitioners the Holy Hootenanners filling the upstairs stage at Clyde Iron Works.